Rene Jesus Payo Hernanz

Rene Jesus Payo Hernanz serves as a Professor at Universidad de Burgos within the Faculty of Humanities and Communication and the Department of History, Geography and Communication. His academic focus centers on History of Art with specialization in Hispanic artistic traditions across European and American contexts.

His educational background includes a PhD from Universidad de Valladolid (1994), where he completed his doctoral thesis El retablo en Burgos y su comarca durante los siglos XVII y XVIII under the supervision of Dr. Alberto C. Ibáñez Pérez. This foundational research established his expertise in Iberian altarpiece traditions during the early modern period.

His research interests span critical domains in art historical scholarship:

• History of Art (primary discipline)
• Hispanic Art (geocultural specialization)
• Early Modern Art (temporal focus)
• Contemporary Art (extended chronology)
• European Art (transnational context)
• American Art (colonial/postcolonial dimension)

Payo Hernanz leads the ARHISMO research group dedicated to Arte hispánico de la Edad Moderna y Contemporánea y sus relaciones europeas y americanas (Hispanic Art of the Modern and Contemporary Age and its European and American relations). He actively supervises doctoral candidates in the Humanidades y Comunicación PhD program at Universidad de Burgos, focusing on art historical methodologies and Iberian visual culture.